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THE WEEK IN WOMEN – Image Update: Like Yourself As You Are! — Brandy McDonnell Comments

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penelope2The message that women should love their looks even if their features aren’t magazine perfect was central to Penelope (2006), the Christina Ricci starrer about a girl born with a pig snout nose. A decade later, the issue still resonates in the media flap about Carrie Fisher’s appearance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. When can women stop trying to look perfect? Let’s declare, as Penelope does, “I like myself the way I am!” and stop letting billion-dollar industries decide who and what is beautiful in movies, and in life. Plus news about Reese Witherspoon, Amy Adams, Lily Collins, Gal Gadot and have YA series run their course in Hollywood? Read more in THE WEEK IN WOMEN…

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Brandy McDonnell

Brandy McDonnell writes features and reviews movies, music, events and the arts for The Oklahoman, Oklahoma's statewide newspaper, and NewsOK.com, the state's largest news Web site. Raised on a farm near Lindsay, Okla., she started her journalism career in seventh grade, when she was elected reporter for her school's 4-H Club. Taking her duties seriously, she began submitting stories to The Lindsay News, and worked for the local weekly through high school. She attended Oklahoma State University, where she worked for The Daily O'Collegian and earned her journalism degree with honors. She worked for three years at small Oklahoma dailies The Edmond Sun and Shawnee News-Star. In 2002, she joined The Oklahoman as a features reporter, writing about movies, the arts, events, families and nonprofits. She moved to The Oklahoman's entertainment desk in 2007. In 2004, she won a prestigious Journalism Fellowship in Child & Family Policy from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Along with her membership in AWFJ, she also is a founding member of the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle. Brandy writes The Week In Women blog for AWFJ.org.